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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-24

LAD @ MIL

Home plate: Tyler Jones

“The strike zone picked a side, and wasn't shy about it.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.2% accurate
1.2
Run Favor
runs, LAD
2
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Tyler Jones called the 148 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 138 right. Below, only his misses are plotted, alongside every pitch the ABS (Automated Ball-Strike System) reviewed on a challenge.

The zone, as he called it

Challenge 1: William Contreras — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: William Contreras — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Dalton Rushing — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Mookie Betts — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.69▲2 · 3-2 strike called ball
    Teoscar Hernández vs Brandon Sproat
  2. 2+0.28▲4 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Teoscar Hernández vs Brandon Sproat
  3. 3+0.19▲2 · 2-0 strike called ball· challenged
    Teoscar Hernández vs Brandon Sproat

Run impact from the count run-value table: a missed strike three is worth far more than one on 3-0.

ABS — the Automated Ball-Strike System

4 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2William Contreras — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Dalton Rushing — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Mookie Betts — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.